Card Game

For everybody who held their breath all day long and nearly suffocated early in the second half: Sit back, relax, put your feet up and take a deep one. In and out, inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale. Now try grinning from ear to ear. It’s for real: Louisville 79, Tennessee 60. Cards are in the [...]

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The dream scenario is that everything finally comes together, youth becomes maturity, potential becomes reality. Not enough to play two good games the first week. Growth has to be real, not adrenaline induced but knowledge and experience-based and extended over three weeks.
David Padgett playing more than eight-minute stretches, sky hooks connecting both sides of the [...]

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Seems like an eternity until 9:40 p.m. on Friday when Louisville and Boise State tip off in Birmingham. Good thing for Rick Pitino: there’s a lot to work on between now and then to avoid an early exit.
One of the best things U of L has going for it is that Birmingham is [...]

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Maintaining their poise these Cards in some tough situations and hellish venues. Not about to cave in, give games away. Not in their makeup, mastering Pittsburgh 75-73, first team to beat Pitt twice at home in that arena.
Who to give the game ball? Edgar Sosa, scoring 15 points in the first half, Andre McGee, hitting [...]

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